I need say little concerning my purpose in presenting this volume, for the title itself aptly conveys my object, viz., to set forth evidence to establish the case for astral projection, which I consider, not a religious, but a strictly scientific problem.

Except for one instance, I have not resorted to quoting my own experiences in establishing this case - for two very good reasons: In the first place, many of my past experiences were re­corded in my first technical book, The Projection of the Astral Body, and my more recent will soon appear in my second technical work, where they will be used as a basis of explanation. Secondly, in setting forth a case, the quoting of one's own personal experiences is often looked upon by the more critical as a fabrication, to strengthen one's contentions.

As the early researchers, backed by the Society for Psychical Research (referred to briefly by the initials, S. P. R.) made an extensive census of hallucinations, that is, recorded the testimony of persons claiming to have seen phantasms of the living, I have, during available time and on my own resources, been collecting testimony from persons claiming to have been phantoms -- to have had out-of-the-body experiences.

In this first non-technical volume I have tried to gather together under one cover, for ready reference of future researchers, not only the more notable published cases along this line which have been scattered here and there; but also cases from my own private collection. Many of the latter have been se­cured at great expenditure of time and labor, by extensive correspondence, cross-correspondence, and personal interviews. Yet they comprise only a portion of the total I have up to date recorded.

Since I am not sustained by any organization and intend to continue building up a large census of these experiences, ultimately to be published, I urge any of my readers who have or may come in contact with such cases to join with me in bringing them to light. In this connection, any communication will reach me at my home address: Darlington, Wisconsin.

In conclusion I take this opportunity to thank those individuals who have already foreseen the great value of bringing forth a census of this kind and have contributed their experiences toward it, for it may eventually form a working basis on which our conservative scientists will venture to attain experimental proof of the spiritual nature of man and the problem of survival.